‹Magic Power increased by 5›
Almost immediately, Marvin's headaches vanished as his Magic Power increased by another 5.
He thought, 'The reward increased by several times. It's as I concluded, the better my performance during the quest, the higher the reward for completing it will be. Next time, I will put my entire focus into completing a quest!'
That was when he heard mechanical words, notifying him of something more important.
[You have obtained 100 Experience points. Level up]
[Attribute points obtained: 5]
A message rang in his head.
[Attributes points can be disturbed into any stats to boosts your powers. Choose wisely]
"Character Menu!" Marvin said.
[Character Menu]
Character: Marvin (Human/¿?)
Level: 2
Exp: 100/200
Attribute: Time and space
HP: 7/7
Magic Power: 10/10
Attribute Points=5
Strength: 7
Vitality: 7 ( Restore 0.07 Hp per second)
Dexterity: 9
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 1 (Restore 0.1 Mana per second)
Resistance: 10 (Negates 1% Physical and Magical damage)
"So leveling up also have a restoration effect. My Magic power should have only increased by five, but it has been maxed out. Does that mean if I level up at 1 hp, I will immediately reach my peak state? If it's true then this can become my last trump card!'
Marvin had such dangerous thoughts. He had been beaten, regularly. He has been acting as bait to attract monsters for months to earn money for his beautiful family. Participating in life and death battle with a weak body has hardened his mentality and personality.
Without any further adieu, he distributed all points in his Dexterity stat, the faster he was the better as time Halt can last for a maximum of ten seconds only. With enough speed, he would be able to slaughter an enemy within the duration of time halt.
[Dexterity increased by 5. Total amount: 14]
He gazed at the character screen and saw this,
[Character Menu]
Character: Marvin (Human/¿?)
Level: 2
Exp: 100/200
Attribute: Time and space
HP: 7/7
Magic Power: 10/10
Attribute Points=5
Strength: 7
Vitality: 7 ( Restore 0.07 Hp per second)
Dexterity: 14
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 1 (Restore 0.1 Mana per second)
Resistance: 10 (Negates 1% Physical and Magical damage)
The system said that his agility has increased by five, but he didn't feel anything.
Previously, he was able to run 60 Kilometer per hour, one of the reasons why he hadn't died after being crushed under the metallic hoves and heavy bodies of magical beasts. He was weak, yet fast on his feet, not many could catch up to him, not even some Rank 2 awakened that has awakened an ability related to speed!
'It's already night, I have definitely missed the last train to my home. Now, I can only go back home on my feet. This is the best moment to check out how the increase in dexterity has improved me overall.'
Marvin has decided to run back to his home.
His home was located very far away from school as the prices of a house or apartment near the school were too costly for their family to afford. They could only stay in the house that their father has bought when he was alive.
Before Marvin started to run, a system notification popped up,
[Daily Quest: Divine Road to Glory]
[Description: Increasing strength does not mean facing life and death danger. Sometimes breathing and physical training can lead to the same effect. Walk on the divine road of Glory!
Run for 50 Kilometers: Incomplete (0/50)
Inhale and Exhale for 1000 times: Incomplete (0/1000)
Perform press-up 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)
Perform Deep Squats, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)
Perform Dagger Slashed 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)
Quest Rewards: Inquisitor dagger, 10 XP
Final Rewards will depend on the grade of the quest.]
Marvin reflexively spat out a dumbfounded chuckle after confirming the contents of the message.
"Ha, haha… seriously man, will even taking a dump becomes a quest that will increase my strength. Isn't this gaming system broken?"
Marvin's lips thinned into a smile, realizing that this must be the chance he has to fulfill his dreams. "There's no need to feel troubled over all this! I'll just take it as a divine blessing. This system might count as the accumulation of luck of all my ancestors. Maybe their bones are dancing in their graves because of joy. With this system, I will be able to start a new life and become a completely different Marvin, a powerful Marvin!" He exclaimed!
While laughing, Marvin stepped out from under the veil. He controlled his facial features and started to run in the tracks.
The pain that he has been feeling in his ankles has vanished thanks to the recovery caused by the Gamer status. He was able to calmly run to the maximum of his physical limits.
He found out that his flexibility has increased. Not only that, he had better control over his feet, he was able to take bigger steps and change to shorter steps almost immediately.
'If I am to become a dancer then I will rock the battle stage!' Marvin thought.
Wing gales swept past each side of his face and ruffled his hair, dead grey eyes have turned silvery, and they shone the brightest under the moonlight.
Newfound motivation and powers have uplifted the heart of the beaten down and depressed Marvin. Now, he could feel his life-changing!
Running and Running, he certified that his speed has increased by some time, his flexibility has improved, and he has better control over his joints and body movement.
Just like in a game, dexterity didn't improve only speed, but all the aspects of the body.
He didn't even know when, but he had arrived at the familiar junk-filled Street near his home.
He was so fast that he passed by a drunken man in the blink of the eye.
"Ghost! There is a ghost!" The drunk man thought that he had seen a ghost. He hurriedly stood up to make a run for it, but his feet stumbled on the bottle littered over the ground. Like a God-given fool, the drunken man fell over on his face.
Marvin reached his home, but he bypassed it by running into some alleyways.
He had a lot of reasons behind this action, one it being two of the task can only be completed in the streets.
Marvin was willing to sacrifice his time with his family to become powerful.
Marvin wanted to become powerful as soon as possible to become rich. Only this way, will he be able to get his angelic sister and beautiful mother out of this hellhole. Only then will he able to cure the paralyzed leg of his angelic sister. Only by becoming rich will the situation of his household become better.
He wanted his sister to stand up once again. He wanted her to study in a prestigious academy, he wanted to marry her off to a suitable man that will love her will all his heart, and have enough authority to protect her from all harm.
He wanted to see her Grand wedding day!
Marvin has already thought that he will do his best so that his family will be able to see and experience wonderful days that have ended ever since their father died!
His mission still hasn't been complete and he wanted to complete it before heading home, so he entered into multiple alleyways and took to the main road.
How often can a man meet with misfortune while running? Maybe once a week, or twice? that too if he's unlucky. Even if he is the unluckiest man alive, he would slip and fell on his head because of a banana peel only once a week, but Marvin has stumbled upon a deathly battle scenario that could become the end of him.
He had just completed two of the five tasks and was returning home to get a dagger to complete the last task, but along the way, something inconceivable happened.
Walking through the alleyways, he stumbled upon a man and a woman fighting each other using their flashy skills. Normally, the protagonist of novels could swag their way through such situations with ease, but Marvin wasn't convinced that he had become one, so he hid behind the alley walls and peeked at the fight.
Lighting snakes and flame pythons swirled around the woman as she clashed with the shiny black head man in a black-suit using her sword.
The man blocked her sword attack with his own, and grinned at her, almost immediately, a lightning python bit his ankles and the man received an electric massage. Right at that moment, Abigail used her sword to slash at the man.
The man couldn't properly react in time as he was being electrified. He was barely able to move his head out of the range of her sword slash, but his head was never her goal!
Abigail smirked as the sword changed its trajectory to the sides and his arm was cut off, but the man in black didn't wail or shout.
A spike protruded out of his leg and stabbed the lightning Python. The lighting Python dispersed and the man regained control.
The moment he gained control over his body, the man in the black suit clawed at Abigail, sending her flying in the skies, she tiptoed her way to the top of a building roof, so did the man in the black suit.
With a simple "Ahem", his hand that spurted blood started to regenerate!
Flesh and bone protruded out of the wound and in some seconds, a new bloody arm without skin has molded.
Marvin was staring at all of this from a dark corner.
The woman was a smoking hot babe. She was tall, and her pale thighs were partially exposed. She has an oval face, a sharp nose, enticing and kissable red lips, and her eyes were bigger than almonds. Tattoos of the silver moon decorated her muscled and well-defined legs and inner thighs.
Her panties were the reddest Marvin has ever seen. They were Scarlet.
Marvin managed to glimpse at her panties when she tiptoed her way to the rooftop of the building nearby.
Abigail's shoulder-length dark red hair fluttered with the wind as she murderously glared at the man in the black suit. She pointed her Moon Sword at him.
On the other hand, the man in the black suit was distressed and confused. Standing on a roof rail opposite to her, he shouted,
"Why are you attacking me? I believe I don't even know you!"
Abigail rolled her eyes, how dare It spews out such bullshit!
"Why you ask? Because you are not even a human being. You can escape from the detection of the city guard by disguising under the skin of a human being, but not mine, Shape-shifting Demon!" Abigail shouted back. With a humming sound, her Moon Sword flickered in bluish light, and lightning was generated.
The man in black was further confused by her accusation, he said with a distressed expression, "Huh? What do you mean!"
Abigail shakes her left and right and her lips curled up in disdain, "Che, you can change your shape but not your disgusting stench. No matter how much perfume you sprinkle upon yourself, I, Abigail Redhawk can still smell out your kind!"
The beautiful woman stated her name with a prideful stance.
The man in black heard her words, breathed in a lot of air, and started to chuckle like a mad man. There was no need to put up a fake pretense of humanity any longer.
"Oh, so you are from that family. I guess putting up this fake act is no longer necessary!" the man in black said.
His fingers gorged into the skin, and the flesh was ripped apart, revealing a grotesque monster. Two abyssal eyes stare at her and glanced at the place where Marvin was hiding with an overpowering animosity, and another screech surges from its crooked mouth in an attempt to intimidate her and Marvin.
Abigail glanced in Marvin's direction and said, "You should run away."
She turned around to stare at the demon.
"Shapeshifting demon, since you have finally decided to reveal your true self, it's time for you to die!" Abigail said, her heroic charm enchanted her beauty under the moonlight. She was not intimidated by the demon. She was going to fight the demon to death, even if it meant death!
Marvin had been silently hiding in the darkness of the alleyway. The woman and the demon have sensed him, but his presence was like thin air to the two almighty beings, so he was ignored. In a situation like this, he should have run away as it's the best choice, but Marvin chose to stay. It's because of the demon. It was clear that it will come after him after it kills the woman. Moreover, a shapeshifting demon hides among the human by taking on the skin of the human. Letting it live will lead to the death of many innocent lives.
THAT CAN INCLUDE HIS MOTHER AND SISTER THAT WERE NEARBY THIS PLACE!
He wasn't gonna let something as unfortunate as that happen.
"Heh, as long as I kill you then I can remain undercover in this city as long as I want. Also, your skin is so pale and smooth, I wonder how I would look in it!" the demon pulls out its tongue with a sharp metallic end. It drops down and cuts the metallic rail in two.
Abigail felt grossed out by Its words, and her determination strengthened so did the lighting that has started to crackle around her body.
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